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alright, already | by zeitnot | 2005-08-04 05:23:24 |
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morality has nothing to do with "Truth" | by voxwoman | 2005-08-04 05:44:01 |
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One comment | by MatthewDBA | 2005-08-04 08:40:23 |
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I guess this is where I differ in a lot of my | by voxwoman | 2005-08-04 09:14:53 |
| I'm not sure that it will |
by MatthewDBA |
2005-08-04 09:27:33 |
have to encompass all aspects of reality - it just has to be universally true. It's not inconceivable that there are absolutes to moral standards but not to physical laws, just as it's not inconceivable that the opposite is true. (And it's entirely possible that it is, indeed, applicable to both.)
As far as "What does it matter to the Universe how we treat each other?" - how do we know? If we don't (or can't) know absolute Truth, we can't say how any of the various entities or rules in the universe fit into it. There's no more reason to believe that "how we treat each other matters less than how planets and ecosystems behave" than to believe the opposite. And there's no particular reason to believe that how we treat each other matters only to us (although there's no reason a priori to believe the opposite).
I'm not saying that objective Truth (if it exists) need necessarily have any bearing on morality; simply that without knowing anything about it, we have no warrant for believing that it won't have any bearing. |
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